Tee Chee Keong Benjamin is a Singaporean scientist. He helped to co-develop the

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technology when he was a PhD student in Stanford University. In 2015, he was chosen as one of

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list (

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's global 35 Innovators Under 35) for his work on e-skin. The only Singaporean on the 2015 TR35 list, e-skins could potentially make prosthetic limbs as sensitive as human ones and enable intuitive human machine interactions. In 2019, he co-developed an underwater self-healing transparent material that could be useful in marine environments.

Career

Tee is currently associate professor (tenured) at the

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's Department of Material Science and Engineering. He is currently Vice-President ( Ecosystem Building) developing the Innovation and Enterprise ecosystem. He served as Vice-Dean of Research and Technology at the College of Design and Engineering and Associate Vice-President at NUS Enterprise. He was the President's assistant professor between 2017 and 2021. He is also an adjunct scientist at the

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's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (A*STAR's IMRE) .

Education

*BS (Summa cum laude) Electrical Engineering,

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, 2006 *MS Electrical Engineering,

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, 2007 *PhD Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2014

Awards

*2005 Undergraduate Outstanding Research Award *2010 TSMC Outstanding Student Research Gold Award *2010 TSMC Outstanding Student Research Academy *2013 MRS Graduate Student Gold Award *2014 Singapore-Stanford Biodesign Global Innovation Fellow *2015 One of 10 finalists TR35 APAC list *2015 One of 35 Innovators Under 35

list by

*2016

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, ''

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'' *2016 Singapore Young Scientist Award *2019 World Economic Forum Young Scientist

Selected publications

#A transparent, self-healing and high-κ dielectric for low-field-emission stretchable optoelectronics, YJ Tan, H. Godaba, G. Chen, STM Tan, GX Wan, G. Li, PM Lee, Y. Cai, S. Li, R. F. Shepherd, J. S Ho, B. C-K. Tee*, Nature Materials, (2020). #A neuro-inspired artificial peripheral nervous system for scalable electronic skins, WW Lee, YJ Tan, H Yao, S Li, HH See, M Hon, B Xiong, K Ng, J Ho, B. C-K. Tee*, Science Robotics, (2019). Featured as Cover. #Self-healing electronic skins for aquatic environments, Y Cao, YJ Tan, S Li, WW Lee, H Guo, Y Cai, C Wang, B. C-K. Tee*, Nature Electronics, 2, (2019). Featured as Cover. #A Skin-Inspired Organic Digital Mechanoreceptor, B. C-K. Tee*, A. Chortos*, A. Berndt*, et al., Science, 350, 313–316 (2015). Featured on Science Magazine #Continuous Wireless Pressure Monitoring and Mapping with Ultra-Small Passive Sensors for Health Monitoring and Critical Care, L. Chen*, B. C-K. Tee*, et al., Nature Communications, 5, 5028, (2014) #An electrically and mechanically self-healing composite with pressure- and flexion-sensitive properties for electronic skin applications, B. C-K. Tee*, C. Wang*, R. Allen, Z. Bao, Nature Nanotechnology, 7, 825–832 (2012) , Featured on Science Magazine, BBC, ABC, National Geography #Tunable Flexible Pressure Sensors using Microstructured Elastomer Geometries for Intuitive Electronics, B. C-K. Tee et al., Advanced Functional Materials 24, 5427–5434, (2014) #Highly sensitive flexible pressure sensors with micro-structured rubber dielectric layers, SCB Mannsfeld, B. C-K Tee, et al., Nature Materials 9, 859–864, (2010). Featured on Nature News and Views

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* 1980s births Living people 21st-century Singaporean scientists University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Stanford University School of Engineering alumni {{engineer-stub